REFERENCE: Abstract O-122Richard Anderson, Queen’s Medical Research Institute, University of Edinburgh
A premenopausal woman with breast cancer, who is about to take chemotherapy, may want to do everything possible to preserve her fertility. Data presented by Richard Anderson of Edinburgh University suggest that regimens involving taxanes may increase the damage to her ovaries.

New Technique for Detecting Egg Defects Before Fertilisation

REFERENCE: Abstract O-13Anna Pia Ferraretti, S.I.S.M.E.R. Clinic, Bologna
Researchers from Italy have revealed a technique which allows them to spot certain defects in an egg cell before it is used for insemination. Anna Pia Ferraretti, of the S.I.S.M.E.R. Clinic in Bologna, had the details in Prague.